Re: Might be OT: Game hoaxes

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From: raveg...
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:13

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On Thursday, 18 January 2001 07:58:06 UTC, Htn963  wrote:
> For some reason, while washing the dishes, I thought of the undead settler
> hoax in Master of Magic and was chuckling.  (The hoax claimed that if you turn
> a settler unit into undead, it can then build an undead city from which you can
> churn out all other undead units.)  The only other notable hoax I can recall
> from my gaming experience is the claim that one can resurrect Aeris from Final
> Fantasy 7  by going through extremely detailed set of fool steps.  Can anyone
> name any other, just for my own curiosity?  Thanks.

There's the famous Sheng Long hoax and there's also the infamous Polybius legend (the game, not the historian).

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